The good news? Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Clueless") directed a new comedy with Alicia Silverstone! The bad news? It continues our current (and tiresome) cultural obsession with vampires.

"Vamps" looks like it might get some chuckles, but I wish Heckerling was doing something else ... and I wish we'd put a stake in the vampires for a while.